PORVORIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has informed the Goa Legislative Assembly that 27 MLD Water Treatment Plant at Opa will be completed by the year-end and it would provide relief to several citizens, especially residents of the Kadamba Plateau who have been facing acute shortage of water.
“The work at Opa water treatment plant will be completed by December 2019. It will be streamlined by them” he said during the Question Hour on Tuesday.
The CM was replying to a question by legislator Antonio Fernandes that residents of Kadamba plateau have been enduring great hardships owing to water crisis on a daily basis. “We know 24X7 water supply is difficult hence we need just three hours of proper water supply,” he said.
With another couple of months to resolve the issue, Fernandes sought from the government water tankers for these residents, to which the CM readily agreed. “24X7 water supply is difficult for now but by 2025 it would be accomplished,” he added.
In his written reply, Public Works Department Minister Deepak Pauskar stated that the work of laying of pipeline along NH4A at Kadamba plateau is completed and work of augmentation of Opa water treatment plant by additional 27 MLD is nearing completion
“There is no acute shortage of water supply in Santa Cruz Constituency. However, during power interruption at water treatment plant and at various pumping stations, breakdown to conveying and distribution mains, the water supply mainly to tail end and higher altitude habitation gets affected,” he said to another question on plans of the government to resolve the acute water shortage problems in the constituency.
